====== Off-shell effects in Higgs studies ======


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===== 1) Estimation of higher order effects using a merged sample : =====
 
Generate samples using different MC's and merge 0- and 1- jet bin. 

  * Make gg=>ZZ and gg=>ZZ+jet inclusive samples which contain off-shell Higgs Effects
  * Make gg=>WW and gg=>WW+jet inclusive samples which contain off-shell Higgs Effects

  * Merge VBFNLO results using Pythia 8, 
  * Generate 4l, 2mu 2e samples (ZZ) and 2l+MET and 2l + 2q (WW) samples

===== 2) Effect of higher jet multiplicities in Kinematic Discriminants ===== 

  * Check the merged sample through a kinematic discriminant based on LO matrix element and see the impact/effect of higher multiplicities. 

Contacts : 

  * Ciaran Williams [[ciaranwi@buffalo.edu]]
  * Eleni Vryonidou, [[evryonidou@gmail.com]]
  * Michael Rauch, [[michael.rauch@kit.edu]]